Editing Stan Musial (section)

==Post-playing career and family life==
[[File:Visit of Stan Musial, Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the St. Louis Cardinals, and family (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Musial with President [[John F. Kennedy]], his wife, Lillian, and daughter, Janet, in the [[Oval Office]] in 1962]]
Musial was named a vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals in September 1963, and he remained in that position until after the 1966 season.<ref name="Lansche199">[[#Lan94|Lansche 1994]]: p. 199</ref> From February 1964 to January 1967, he also served as President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s physical fitness adviser, a part-time position created to promote better fitness among American citizens.<ref>[[#Gig01|Giglio 2001]]: pp. 275–78</ref> Before the 1967 season began, the Cardinals named Musial the team's [[General manager (baseball)|general manager]], and he oversaw the club's [[1967 St. Louis Cardinals season|World Series championship that year]].<ref name=Lansche199/> He won the allegiance of Cardinals players by making fair offers from the outset of player-contract negotiations and creating an in-stadium babysitting service so players' wives could attend games.<ref>[[#Gig01|Giglio 2001]]: p. 285</ref>

Musial met Lillian Susan Labash, the daughter of a local grocer,<ref name="Timmermann 1-25-2013"/> in Donora when both were 15, and married her in [[Basilica of St. Paul (Daytona Beach, Florida)|St. Paul's Catholic Church]] in [[Daytona Beach, Florida]] on May 25, 1940. They had four children: son Richard, and daughters Gerry, Janet, and Jeanie.<ref name="Lansche 1994: 14"/><ref>[[#Mus64|Musial and Broeg 1964]]: 229</ref> Lillian Musial died at 91, on May 3, 2012; their marriage had lasted for almost 72 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120504&content_id=30375446&vkey=news_stl&c_id=stl#disqus_thread |title=Lilian Musial: The Woman behind The Man |first=Jenifer |last=Langosch |work=[[Major League Baseball |MLB.com]] |date=May 4, 2012 |access-date=May 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510162156/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120504&content_id=30375446&vkey=news_stl&c_id=stl#disqus_thread |archive-date=May 10, 2012  }} {{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120503&content_id=30342762&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |title=Stan Musial's Wife, Lillian, Dies at 91 |access-date=May 4, 2012 |last=Roberts |first=Quinn |date=May 3, 2012 |work=[[Major League Baseball |MLB.com]]  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505122220/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120503&content_id=30342762&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |archive-date=May 5, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Musial was noted for his harmonica playing, which included his rendition of "[[Take Me Out to the Ball Game]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://baseballhall.org/news/history/take-me-out-ball-game |title=Take Me Out to the Ball Game |access-date=July 9, 2010 |last=Wiles |first=Tim |date=May 18, 2010 |publisher=[[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918005652/http://baseballhall.org/news/history/take-me-out-ball-game |archive-date=September 18, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> Throughout the 1990s, he frequently played the harmonica at public gatherings, such as the annual Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony and various charity events.<ref name="Gig299">[[#Gig01|Giglio 2001]]: pp. 298–99</ref> He appeared on the television show ''[[Hee Haw]]'' in 1985,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts/2013-01-19/cardinal-nation-mourns-the-passing-of-stan-the-man |title=Cardinal Nation mourns the passing of Stan the Man |first=Mary Delach |last=Leonard |work=St. Louis Public Radio (KWMU) |date=January 19, 2013 |access-date=November 22, 2020 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924071843/https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts/2013-01-19/cardinal-nation-mourns-the-passing-of-stan-the-man |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 1994 recorded 18 songs that were sold in tandem with a harmonica-playing instruction booklet.<ref name=Gig299/>

Even though Musial left Donora after high school, he retained close ties to the town throughout the rest of his life. He maintained membership in local social clubs, and regularly sent a local [[Physician|doctor]] boxes of autographed baseballs, with the town's mayor using some for [[United Way of America|United Way]] fundraising.<ref name="Timmermann 1-25-2013">{{cite news |url=http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinal-beat/musial-put-donora-on-the-map-but-town-is-fading/article_1b11dae0-328c-5329-8cab-7fbb3e07afe5.html |title=Musial put Donora on the map, but town is fading away |first=Tom |last=Timmermann |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |date=January 25, 2013 |access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130182323/http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinal-beat/musial-put-donora-on-the-map-but-town-is-fading/article_1b11dae0-328c-5329-8cab-7fbb3e07afe5.html |archive-date=November 30, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Musial also gave free meals at the restaurant he owned in St. Louis to any customers who presented valid ID proving they were Donora residents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17121018/hall-fame-donora-pa-home-man-kid |title=Welcome to Donora, Pa.: The unlikely intersection of The Kid and Stan The Man |first=Jim |last=Caple |website=[[ESPN]] |date=July 22, 2016 |access-date=July 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723165409/http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/17121018/hall-fame-donora-pa-home-man-kid |archive-date=July 23, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During his playing years, Musial believed in racial equality and supported [[Jackie Robinson]]'s right to play. After learning about the harmful effect of smoking in the 1950s, he refused to endorse tobacco products.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/musialfromstasht0000gigl|title=Musial: from Stash to Stan the Man|last=Giglio|first=James N.|date=2001|publisher=University of Missouri Press|location=Columbia, Missouri}}</ref>